Stories from those who lived to tell them. This series draws on the testimony of 200 Canadians who fought in WW1, recorded by CBC Radio in 1964. The men's stories are supplemented by letters, war diaries, military reports and poetry. In this episode: Who were the men who rushed to sign up? And how did they feel as they left Canada with their guns and horses to fight the army of the German Kaiser? It was a rough journey to war; filthy troopships and months in rain-soaked tents in England but by January 1915 they were in France in makeshift trenches and taking their first casualties...
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At Ypres, in April 1915, the Canadians faced a terrifying new weapon: deadly chlorine gas. This was not a war of quick advances and dashing cavalry charges. Machine guns and barbed wire slowed everything down and combat became a deadly cat and mouse game fought in a maze of trenches.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-b...-baptism-of-fire-and-deadly-stealth-1.3123318